Global Blue - Shop Tax Free
48
Quality Score
Emerging
Global Blue - Shop Tax Free
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Global Blue - Shop Tax Free is an iOS app from Global Blue Marketing Services Ltd in the Travel category, currently rated 3.3★ across 876 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 48: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Travel app, that means early traction worth watching. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$120K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $90K – $160K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| 📦 Asset bundle (260 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$120K
👥 Estimated audience size
96K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
9.6K
Daily active
1.4K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲 Travel engagement | ~110 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Travel D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.15 |
DAU / MAU
15% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Stalled · 40/100MID TIERno growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
4.6
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
8.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.32★ across 876 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (3.3★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (13 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (876 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v4.9.1
Thanks for using the Shop Tax Free app. We update the app as often as possible to improve the features, and the performance.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Global Blue - Shop Tax Free
- Developer
- Global Blue Marketing Services Ltd
- Bundle ID
- com.globalblue.ios.Global-Blue
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TR
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $404/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Travel
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth876 ratings+28% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (59 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
The SHOP TAX FREE app is free with everything you need to shop the world in the palm of your hand. You can now confidently find, shop and refund on your mobile.
The new SHOP TAX FREE app can help you:
• Track your tax refunds instantly see how much you’re saving
• Find your favourite brands and stores
• Quickly find minimum purchase amounts and the tax free shopping rules and information
• Save time, with autofill of tax free forms
• Find the most convenient refund locations in the city and the airport… View full description on the official store →
The new SHOP TAX FREE app can help you:
• Track your tax refunds instantly see how much you’re saving
• Find your favourite brands and stores
• Quickly find minimum purchase amounts and the tax free shopping rules and information
• Save time, with autofill of tax free forms
• Find the most convenient refund locations in the city and the airport… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 260 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v4.9.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, EN, FR, DE, ID +8📂 Travel💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.70 → 3.32 (improved 0.62★)
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.55 → 2.70 (improved 1.15★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-10
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.60 (dropped 0.40★)
2015-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.67 → 3.00 (dropped 0.67★)
2014-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2014-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
2013-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 2.39286★ | 56 | 2.39286★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.09732★ | 298 | 4.09732★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 2.7439★ | 82 | 2.7439★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 2.57954★ | 88 | 2.57954★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.13994★ | 343 | 4.13994★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 2.71825★ | 252 | 2.71825★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3.42308★ | 26 | 3.42308★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.23077★ | 26 | 3.23077★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.31891★ | 878 | 3.31891★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Global Blue - Shop Tax Free: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 876 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Global Blue - Shop Tax Free make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Global Blue - Shop Tax Free earns approximately $403/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
What apps are like Global Blue - Shop Tax Free?▴
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Who makes Global Blue - Shop Tax Free?▴
Global Blue - Shop Tax Free is published by Global Blue Marketing Services Ltd on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Global Blue - Shop Tax Free's BU Score?▴
Global Blue - Shop Tax Free has a BU Score of 48/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.